What is it about?
This article reviews recent academic research into religion and popular music focussing on the role played in pop music by lyrics, ritual and practice, and its critique of religion
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Why is it important?
It looks at the wider implications of the growing place of spirituality in our society and how popular music shares common ground with forms of religious practice.
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This is the fourth of four papers from our research project into links between religious practice and listening to popular music. It summarizes our thinking set out in previous articles and our book "Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls" (Baker Academic, 2012)
Dr Vaughan S Roberts
Coventry Cathedral
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This page is a summary of: Religion and Western Popular Music: Reach out and Touch Faith?, Modern Believing, January 2017, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/mb.2017.3.
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